I loved this, which I have only just found, “The Warblog of J. Alfred Prufrock”. It was posted on March 4th of this year, so I think it okay to give away the ending.
I must post…I must post…
I shall link to bloggers that get linked to most.Shall I write a scathing essay? Do I dare to make a stink?
I shall make my page quite shocking, with my fonts fluorescent pink.
I have seen the A-list linking, link to link.I do not think that they will link to me.
I have seen them writing onward down the scroll
Thirty posts daily makes a breathless tale
Plus columns and interviews and e-mail,
I have waited for this moment in the sun
On web-sites read and stored in my cache
Then InstaPundit links me! And I crash.
I don’t remember Samizdata attending to this on, say, March 5th, but I am very occasionally wrong about things blogular, and even sometimes about things generally. No doubt I’ll be humiliated by some commenter. “Sorry Brian, but …” Oh well.
More seriously, I want to say that whereas a “week-old piece of election commentary” would indeed be tiresome (I read that somewhere last night but sorry, didn’t keep a note of where), a nine month late blog-reference to something of enduring entertainment value is surely okay. Is not one of our blog-duties to keep the best bloggage from months and years ago alive, even as the rest sinks into the informational sediment that will be of interest only to future generations of info-archeologists?
So two could happen with that,
Crimes of passion will be lessened. Or when being assaulted the criminal must declare in a clear voice that “its not personal” (kind of a miranda rights for violent crime).
Very interesting post